Pleased to be attending and presenting on #MPAGovernance at the #MPAinMSP conference in beautiful #Bodo. I'm listening intently but the view from the conference room is beautiful....

This move was announced over 10 years ago & has been delayed by several factors, particularly ongoing challenges of securing fishing restrictions in MPAs beyond 6nm, as the UK has to liaise with European Commission and other member states whose fishers would be affected

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This 'new policy' looks like a re-announcement of a policy initiative first announced over 10 years ago?

"Stage 3 covers the remaining impacts of fishing on the 41 MPAs with seabed features not already covered in Stage 1 or Stage 2"

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This looks like a re-announcement of an MMO policy initiative originally announced over 10 years ago in 2014:

"Stage 3 covers the remaining impacts of fishing on the 41 MPAs with seabed features not already covered in Stage 1 or Stage 2"

www.gov.uk/government/c...

Interesting modelling analysis! We take an empirical approach to this question through 50 case studies on #MPAGovernance. Building on concepts of structuration& #CoevolutionaryGovernance we find that structural institutions & human agency are co-created & coevolve
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Wonderful day at our daughter Kirsty Brooksbank's PhD graduation from @qmbci.bsky.social on her research on immunological cancer treatment, she's worked so hard and we are so proud of her!

Agree with @martinecroxall.bsky.social, Tom Napper's painting captured the event excellently
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Grateful to @rgsibg.bsky.social for organising public discussion on Protecting Marine Ecosystems, with panel members Louise MacCallum @bluemarinef.bsky.social, Professor Michael Cunliffe @thembauk.bsky.social & myself, chaired by @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social presenter @martinecroxall.bsky.social

The paper summarised in this thread follows on from this excellent analysis in exploring the diversity of governance approaches that #MPAs can use to make them both more effective and more equitable
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...which interact with and support one another to promote MPA effectiveness and resilience,

i.e. diversity is the key to resilience, both of species in ecosystems and incentives in governance systems.
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c) whilst some incentives are frequently identified as being important to promote effectiveness, no particular ‘magic wand’ incentive or ‘best practice’ combinations of incentives guarantee this
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a) there is strong correlation between the effectiveness of MPAs & the number of governance incentives used

b) combinations of economic, legal, communication, knowledge & participatory incentives are shown to be employed in effective MPAs & mostly needed in less effective MPAs

A target to conserve 30% of oceans by designating MPAs has been agreed, yet the effectiveness of existing MPAs is often low, with few weakly implemented restrictions on impacting uses.
Drawing on #coevolutionarygovernance and #socialecologicalsystems concepts we hypothesize that: